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In a world first, Geoscience Australia has painted an Indigenous artwork on its satellite antenna as part of a major upgrade – making the Alice Springs antenna unique in more ways than one.

The upgraded Alice Springs antenna was commissioned today in a ceremony highlighting both the antenna's key role in the United States Landsat program, and the artwork painted on its surface that recognises the Arrernte people as traditional custodians of the land.

Video: Thanks to the internet and being able to easily share videos of them playing out, those pointlessly complicated Rube Goldberg machines are more popular than ever. But this wonderful kinetic sculpture actually uses the internet as one of its countless mechanisms so that it's able to play out across five different cities across the United States.

Artist and illustrator Duncan Halleck is based in Brussels, Belgium — but his concept art is distinctly otherworldly. And he has a story in mind while he's creating his art. Instead of a standard caption, here's what he wrote about Recon, pictured above.

The latest masterpiece to get the action figure treatment in Figma's Table Museum series is the tortured soul featured in Edvard Munch's famous The Scream painting from 1893. The figure won't ever stop screaming, but with its articulated arms and torso you can at least pose it to look slightly less upset.

Video: Filip Sterckx's Gallery Invasion is a clever, kooky and totally adorable art show that brings art works to life through projection mapping. It's like those Night at the Museum movies but with drawings deciding to jump out of their canvas and play rough with each other all over the gallery instead of museum exhibits messing with Ben Stiller for some reason. But it's a lot of fun to see the artwork appear self-aware and interact with its surroundings.

From a strictly mineral standpoint, life on Earth is pretty ridiculous. Some carbon is organised, moves around a little and then falls back apart. Not so coincidentally, that's also the basic premise of artist Agelio Batle's Ash Dancer, which features a big-arse skeleton literally shaking around until it disappears.

Engineer and artist Julian Oliver has created a cool art project that hides a mobile phone tower in an office laser printer. Dubbed the Stealth Cell Tower, this art project is a artistic commentary on the nature of surveillance and privacy, but it's also very cool.

Video: Some artists work with paint, others use clay, while some chip away at chunks of marble. Shinri Tezuka prefers the medium of sweets, turning melted sugar into stunning crystal-like creations through the Japanese art of amezaiku.

A great movie poster can be better than the movie itself. With one single glance, it can sell an impossible promise and offer unlimited possibility. However, in the past few decades, the idea of the illustrated, artistic, idealistic movie poster has more or less gone away. Now, a new documentary called 24 x 36: A Movie About Movie Posters explores why that happened and poses a solution to the problem.

Batman '66 aesthetic is burned into the very fabric of pop culture — bright lights, bold colours, biffs, boffs and kapows. But these recently resurfaced pieces of production art go behind the scenes in seeing how that aesthetic was eventually brought to life.

Video: I enjoyed this portrait of pop-up book artist Matthew Reinhart because, well, pop-up books are awesome and will never stop being amazing no matter how old I am, or how far technology advances. But also because he explains the technical aspects that go into making a pop-up book, like the V-folds he uses to make something lunge out, the layers he builds to establish structure and the different hinges he puts in to make objects move around.

Artist Brad Hill has a very distinct style. He takes some of your favourite pop culture properties and turns them into small, handmade sculptures. Some are very detailed, others are more kid-oriented, but they're all beautiful, and you've got to check them out.

Video: Seeing these film shots from Empire of the Sun,Lost in Translation and Sexy Beast next to the paintings of Norman Rockwell, John Kacere and Marc Chagall is like seeing double. The film version are close versions of the original art. It's obvious that Steven Spielberg, Stanley Kubrick and Sofia Coppola get their inspiration from many things in life, but it's still interesting to see how some of their vision comes directly from fine art.

Looking for a new and unique way to share your Instagram shots with the world? A company called Colour.Works now offers a unique alternative to simply having your digital photos printed: It will instead turn them into elaborate mosaics hand-assembled from thousands of coloured crayons.

There is no doubt that Ralph McQuarrie's sublime art was fundamental in shaping the success of Star Wars, and enriching the galaxy far, far away. For years his work has been archived and championed, but a new book is collecting some of his best (and some of his rarest) Star Wars art in a lavish volume, and we have an exclusive look inside.

When Scout Zhang spotted the creature scrambling up and away from the wreckage, he took a deep breath. Sure, the thing had just devoured thirty tons of perfectly good salvage, but when it came to first contact, patience always trumped anger.

Video: Jake Fried's hand-drawn Mind Frame may only last one minute, but it's incredibly intricate, crafted from detailed drawings made using ink, coffee and Wite-Out. And this is just one of several similar yet distinctly different experimental animations in his body of work.